The Mile that Midas TouchedThe story of Kalgoorlie's golden mile - the richest few acres of gold-bearing country in the world - and of the rest of the Eastern goldfields in Western Australia. |
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Page 44
... ounces from less than five tons of stone , and later treated forty tons to recover 21,500 ounces . In his Spinifex and Sand , the Hon . David Carnegie , who was early on the field , quotes a letter from Everard Browne to Lord Percy ...
... ounces from less than five tons of stone , and later treated forty tons to recover 21,500 ounces . In his Spinifex and Sand , the Hon . David Carnegie , who was early on the field , quotes a letter from Everard Browne to Lord Percy ...
Page 64
... ounces . In the four months from April 1895 , through a ten - head stamp battery , the Great Boulder yielded 10,000 ounces at an average of nearly eight ounces of gold to the ton . Within a few years , as the reef mines around Mt ...
... ounces . In the four months from April 1895 , through a ten - head stamp battery , the Great Boulder yielded 10,000 ounces at an average of nearly eight ounces of gold to the ton . Within a few years , as the reef mines around Mt ...
Page 156
... ounces in 1914 to just over 700,000 ounces in 1919 , and was to fall further in the next ten years to under 400,000 ounces in 1929 . The big mines of the Golden Mile went on working , but as the years passed they slowed down , until ...
... ounces in 1914 to just over 700,000 ounces in 1919 , and was to fall further in the next ten years to under 400,000 ounces in 1929 . The big mines of the Golden Mile went on working , but as the years passed they slowed down , until ...
Contents
A Town to Remember | 11 |
Background to Discovery | 21 |
The Cross over Kalgoorlie | 33 |
Copyright | |
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